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XVI - XX. Macbeth To make assurance double sure The be-all and end-all The milk of human kindness To screw ones courage to the sticking place To win golden opinions At one fell swoop The sere and yellow leaf Pride of place Full of sound and fury Hamlet To be or not to be? To cudgel ones brains The observed of all observers To be hoist with ones own petard To do yeoman service Our withers are unwrung To shuffle off this mortal coil To give pause to smb. To out-Herod Herod To know a hawk from a handsaw Caviar to the general Germane to the matter A towering passion The primrose path of dalliance Theres the rub From whose bourne no traveller returns In the minds eye To the manner born Shreds and patches Sweets to the sweet To the top of ones bent general Othello The green-eyed monster To chronicle small beer The seamy side To wear ones heart upon ones sleeve Trifles light as air Curled darlings Moving accident s Ocular proof A foregone conclusion The head and front of The pity of it King Henry IV To eat one out of house and home The wish is father to the thought The better part of valour is discretion King Henry V To give the devil his due King John To gild refined gold To paint the lily Twelfth Night Midsummer madness The whirligig of time Cakes and ale Merchant of Venice To have smb. on the hip To ones hearts content A Daniel come to judgement A pound of flesh With bated breath As You Like It How the world wags? In good set terms Lay it on with a trowel Sermons in stones Midsummer Nights Dream Fancy free The beginning of the end King Lear Every inch a king More sinned against than sinning Much Ado About Nothing Comparisons are odorous Good men and true Troilus and Creseide Hit or miss Romeo and Juliet A fools paradise - Comedy of Errors Neither rhyme nor reason Antonius and Cleopatra Salad days Julius Caesar An itching palm Tempest A sea-change Coriolanus A triton among the minnows - Loves Labour Lost Thats flat to wear ones heart upon ones sleeve for days to peck at Othello to wear ones heart upon ones sleeve. upon - on. Its lovely to be able to tell the world what she means to me. Howard adds I never back off from showing my emotions whatever they are. I think if we all wore our hearts on our sleeves a bit more wed all get on a lot better.

The times the better part of valour is discretion King Henry IV discretion is the better part of valour applaud cheer to the echo applaud to the echo - Macbeth cram ram thrust smth. down smb.s throat thrust smth. down smb.s throat - Titus Andronicus buy golden opinions buy win. at one fell swoop Macbeth at one swoop.

They go quick, one after another - five of them vanished already at one swoop.

S. OCasey from whose bourne no traveller returns bourne 2.3.2. XVII - XX Fools rush in where angels fear to tread An Essay on Criticism Damn with faint praise Epistle to Dr. Arbuth-not Break a butterfly on the wheel Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Who shall decide when doctors disagree? Moral Essays To catch smb. red-handed Ivanhoe Beard the lion in his den Marmion Laugh on the wrong side of ones mouth Rob Roy On ones native path Rob Roy A foeman worthy of smb.s steel The Lady of the Lake Through thick and thin The Canterbury Tales Murder will out The Canterbury Tales He needs a long spoon that sups with the devil.

He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon The Canterbury Tales Fall on evil days Paradise Lost Heaven on Earth Paradise on Earth Paradise Lost Confusion worse confounded Paradise Lost The light fantastic toe LAllegro More than meets the ear Paradise Lost The land of Nod Polite Conversation A sight for sore eyes Polite Conversation All the world and his wife Polite Conversation To quarrel with ones bread and butter Polite Conversation All in the days work Polite Conversation To rain cats and dogs Polite Conversation Someone is walking over my grave Polite Conversation -1 2 King Charless head David Copperfield Never say die David Copperfield Barkis is willing David Copperfield A bag of bones Oliver Twist An Artful Dodger Oliver Twist The Circumlocution Office Little Dorrit Prunes and prism Little Dorrit How goes the enemy? Nicholas Nickleby In a Pickwickian sense Pickwick Papers Not to put too fine a point on it Bleack House I XVIII John Bull Law is a Bottomless Pit 1712 , The History of John Bull. John Barleycorn John Barleycorn . as cool as a cucumber Poems on Several Occasions . man Friday Robinson Crusoe a gentlemans gentleman Everybodys Business . an albatross about ones neck The Ancient Mariner a cup that cheers but not inebriates The Task . to clip smb.s wings - what will Mrs. Grundy say Speed the Plough fly off at a tangent - Humphrey Clinker fit like a glove Humphrey Clinker . small talk Letters to his Son. XIX as merry as a marriage-bell Childe Harolds Pilgrimage . the child is father of the man few and far between Pleasures of Hope. Paul Pry Paul Pry. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . a little rift within the lute Idylls of the King, Merlin and Vivien . mover and shaker XX little Mary the tail wags the dog The Conundrum of the Workshops corridors of power John Barleycorn ? XVII ? John Barleycorn . to be on the side of the angels, vanity fair Pilgrims Progress 1678 - 1684 . a skeleton in the closet green like a Cheshire cat as mad as a hatter ? as mad as a March hare Alice in Wonderland . 2.4 the almighty dollar - a Rip Van Winkle the last hurrah the last of the Mohicans bury the hatchet dig up the hatchet go on the war-path ships that pass in the night Tales of Wayside Inn 1893 . the call of the wild the iron heel gone with the wind Gone With the Wind 1867 - 1900 . the grapes of wrath Battle Hymn of the Republic 1862 hitch ones wagon to a star Society and Solitude 2.5 appetite comes with eating 1515 Buridans ass XIV an ass a donkey between two bundles of hay castles in Spain for smb.s fair eyes for the fair eyes of smb an ivory tower let us return to our muttons to return to ones muttons to pull smb.s the chestnuts out of the fire for smb to make a cats paw of smb You tried to use me as a cats paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire for Stanley Rider. U. Sinclair ?16 2.6 speech is silvern, silence is golden As the Swiss Inscription says Sprechen ist silbern, schweigen ist golden speech is silvern, silence is golden Sartor Resartus storm and stress 70-80 XVIII Sturm und Drang - between hammer and anvil 1868 the emperor has wears no clothes 1837 an ugly duckling 2.7 the knight of the Rueful Countenance el Caballero de la triste figura. tilt at windmills acometer molinos de viento 2.8 Aladdins lamp to rub the lamp - Alnascharns dream the old man of the sea an open Sesame ?15 1 1991. 2 ,1989. 3 1997. 4 1990. 5 2001. 6 1990. 7 1986. 8 2001. 9 1990. 10 1999. 11 2001. 12 1990. 13 ,1999. 14 1981. 15 1996. 16. 3 2001. 17 2000. 18 2001. 19 1982. 20 1996. 21 1996. 22 1993. 23 ,1996. 24 1998. 25 1988. 26 1991. 27 1999. 28 2000. 29 1999. 30 1994. 31 1986. 32. 3 1985. 33 ,1981. 34. Howarth, Peter Andrew Phraseology in English Academic Writing Some implications for language learning and dictionary making Tьbingen Niemlyer, 1996. 35. Longman Dictionary of English Idioms.

L 1981. 36. Richard A. Spears American Idioms Dictionary, Lincolnwood, Illinois, USA, 1991. 37. Makkai,A. Idiom Structure in English The Hague, 1987. 38. Weinreich, U. Problems in the Analysis of Idioms Substance and Structure of Language University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1984. To answer a fool according to his folly To be at ease in Zion To be of one mind To bear ones cross To beat swords into plough-shares To beat the air To bend the knee to smb. To bow down in the house of Ammon Built upon sand To call in question To cast in ones lot with smb. To cast ones bread upon the waters To cast pearls before swine To cast the first stone at smb. To change ones skin To condemn oneself out of ones mouth To darken counsel To dig a pit for smb. To draw a bow at a venture To entertain an angel unawares To escape by the skin of ones teeth To fall on stony ground To fill up the measure of To find favor with To give short shrift to To gnash the teeth To go from strength to strength Go to Jericho! To gird up ones loins To grind the faces of the poor To have itching ears To have no part nor lot in To have pity on smb. To have someones mantle fall upon one To heap coals of fire on somebodys head To hide ones light under a bushel To kick against the pricks To kill the fatted calf To laugh to scorn To lift up ones voice To make bricks without straw To possess ones soul in patience To proclaim from the housetops To put ones hand to the plough To search the heart To see eye to eye with somebody To serve God and Mammon To set ones face against something To set ones house inn order To shake off the dust of ones feet To sit under ones vine and fig-tree To smite hip and thigh To sow the wind and reap the whirlwind To spare ones words To spare the rod and spoil the child To spoil the Egyptians To strain at a gnat To take counsel To take someones name in vain To touch pitch and be defiled To turn ones face to the wall To turn the other cheek To wash ones hands off To worship the golden calf After ones own heart He is all things to all men The apple of ones eye The apple of Sodom As one man Balm in Gilead To be a proverb and a by-word The beam the mote in ones eye The blind leading the blind Bowels of mercy The breath of the nostrils A broken reed The burden and the heat of the day By the sweat of ones brow The camel and the needles eye Can the leopard change his spots? The children of this world The chosen people A cloud of witnesses A crown of glory Daily bread Deep calling to deep A drop in the bucket Of the earth, earthly Egyptian darkness At the eleventh hour Evil communications corrupt good manners An eye for an eye eye for eye, tooth for tooth In fear and trembling Feet of clay Filthy lucre The flesh-pots of Egypt A fly in the ointment Gall and wormwood The gift of tongues The good Samaritan The Holy of Holies A howling wilderness If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? In the flesh In the land of the living In the twinkling of an eye In vain is the net spread in the sight of the bird A labor of love The law of the Medes and Persians The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places A lion in the way The little leaven that leavens the whole lump Loaves and fishes The Mammon of unrighteousness Milk and honey New wine in old bottles No man can serve two masters No respecter of persons Not a jot or a tittle Off the face of the earth The old Adam The old leaven The olive branch On the wings of the wind To pour out the vials of wrath on upon Pride goes before a fall The prodigal son The promised land A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country Quit yourselves like men The root of all evil The root of the matter Sackcloth and ashes Safe and sound The salt of the earth The shadow of death A soft answer turns away wrath The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak Their name is legion A thorn in the flesh A tinkling cymbal A voice in the wilderness The wages of sin The weaker vessel Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap Whited sepulchre The widows cruse With clean hands With the pure, all things are pure A wolf in sheeps clothing A word in season The writing handwriting on the wall ,.